Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations (Hardcover))

Published in 1947, A Streetcar Named Desire garnered Tennessee Williams the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Award. Considered a lyrical masterpiece, the drama reveals the destructive impact that ensues when romantic impulse encounters animal vitalism. The title, Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Tennessee Williams, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. Introduction / Harold Bloom The Hetairas (Maggie, Myrtle, Blanche) / Gulshan Rai Kataria There are lives that desire does not sustain: A streetcar named desire / Calvin Bedient Domestic violence in A streetcar named desire / Susan Koprince Blanche DuBois and the kindness of endings / George Toles "It's only a paper moon": the paper ontologies in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named desire / Philip C. Kolin Misrepresentation and miscegenation: reading the racialized discourse of Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named desire / George W. Crandell Scene 11 of A streetcar named desire / Bert Cardullo Captive maids: women and madness / Jacqueline O'Connor Wagnerian archectronics: the plastic language of Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named desire / John S. Bak Darkness made visible: miscegenation, masquerade and the signified racial Other in Tennessee Williams' Baby doll and A streetcar named desire / Rachel Van Duyvenbode A room which isn't empty: A streetcar named desire and the question of homophobia / Michael Paller. A Collection Of Eleven Critical Essays On Hemingway's Novel The Sun Also Rises Arranged In Chronological Order Of Publication. The Wastelanders / Carlos Baker -- The Death Of Love In The Sun Also Rises / Mark Spilka -- Implications Of Form In The Sun Also Rises / William L. Vance -- Ernest Hemingway And The Rhetoric Of Escape / Robert O. Stephens -- Meyer Wolfsheim And Robert Cohn: A Study Of A Jewish Type And Stereotype / Josephine Z. Knopf -- Hemingway's Morality Of Compensation / Scott Donaldson -- The End Of The Sun Also Rises: A New Beginning / Carole Gottlieb Vopat -- The Sun Also Rises: One Debt To Imagism / Linda W. Wagner -- False Dawn: The Sun Also Rises Manuscript / Michael S. Reynolds -- What's Funny In The Sun Also Rises / James Hinkle -- Toreo: The Moral Axis Of The Sun Also Rises / Allen Josephs. Edited And With An Introduction By Harold Bloom. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 173-178. Contents......Page 6 Editor's Note......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 The Hetairas......Page 16 There Are Lives......Page 44 Domestic Violence......Page 58 Blanche DuBois......Page 70 "It's Only a Paper Moon"......Page 92 Misrepresentation and Miscegenation......Page 108 Scene 11 of A Streetcar......Page 120 Wagnerian Architectonics......Page 126 Darkness Made Visible......Page 142 A Room Which Isn't Empty......Page 154 Chronology......Page 172 Contributors......Page 176 Bibliography......Page 178 Acknowledgments......Page 182 Index......Page 184 Summary, A collection of eleven critical essays on Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises" arranged in chronological order of publication. A collection of eleven critical essays on Williams's play "A Streetcar Named Desire" arranged in chronological order of publication Presents a collection of critical essays on the play that analyze its structure, characters, language, and major themes.